This is not an active blog anymore. But it does provide access to a 30-minute, monthly public access program that aired in Thurston County in Washington from January 2006 through December 2007. The show was produced for and by birders with help from the Black Hills Audubon Society and the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge and was recognized by the Audubon Society for its contribution to birding.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

June Birdwise editing done, ready for premiere

We taped the June and July studio shots at the same time because of scheduling difficulties in July. I finished editing the June show this weekend. As with the May show, there is a pre-show video of a red-breasted sapsucker tapping hard on a douglas fir. The shot divides to show a burrowing owl responding to the sapsucker's knocking with the question: Whoooo is there?

The June show offers cross-species mating (well more accurately cross-species brooding, called "mixed brood") We also do a feature on the do do bird. Our featured bird site is Ellis Cove Trail in Priest Point Park and our bird of the month is the winter wren. We also have a rather disgusting little video of a robin removing a fecal sac from one of its babies. All that and more starting Sunday June 3. Birdwise airs Sundays at 1 p.m. and Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. on Thurston Community Television Channel 22.

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Web videos

I apologize for the low resolution of the web version of Birdwise. I uploaded these original through Google video at a time when I barely knew what I was doing. I have since migrated the videos to YouTube. They don't attract many viewings but if you're interested in birding, they are a nice reference.